Φανός
bright, clean, light; Phanos
Translated by Catharine Roth7 Jul 2011Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] radiant. [sc. Someone] reporting and making clear the matters and disclosing [them]; or from the [verb] fai/nw ["to reveal"], that is to blackmail. "So that I will be your Phanos, scribe of lawsuits."1 But they used to call fano/n anything which revealed [something]. But they used to make lamps out of grape-vines. Hence the expression "vine's light".2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φανός· φαεινός. καταγγέλλων καὶ φανερὰ ποιῶν τὰ πράγματα καὶ μηνύων. ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ φαίνειν, ὅ ἐστι συκοφαντεῖν. ὅπως ἔσομαί σοι φανὸς ὑπογραφεὺς δικῶν. Φανὸν δὲ πᾶν τὸ φαῖνον ἐκάλουν. ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἀμπελίνων τὰς λαμπάδας κατεσκεύαζον. διὸ λέγεται φανὸς ἀμπέλου.
Betacode
*fano/s: faeino/s. katagge/llwn kai\ fanera\ poiw=n ta\ pra/gmata kai\ mhnu/wn. h)\ a)po\ tou= fai/nein, o(/ e)sti sukofantei=n. o(/pws e)/somai/ soi fano\s u(pografeu\s dikw=n. *fano\n de\ pa=n to\ fai=non e)ka/loun. e)k de\ tw=n a)mpeli/nwn ta\s lampa/das kateskeu/azon. dio\ le/getai fano\s a)mpe/lou.
Notes (2)
- For the adjective
fano/s cf. phi 71. - 1Aristophanes, Knights 1256 (web address 1), preceded here by material from the scholia there. Phanos is routinely (e.g. LSJ s.v. II, LGPN ii) taken to be a real individual, his name appropriate to his livelihood. ↩
- 2From the fuller scholia on Aristophanes, Lysistrata 308, where the noun
fano/s ("torch") occurs (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history2 revisions · last 4 Dec 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth